robert-bucknor's - FAVOURITES List

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Between the past and the future, sanity and madness, dreams and reality, lies the mystery of the Twelve Monkeys...

The year is 2035 and human kind subsists in a desolate netherworld following the eradication of 99% of the Earth's population, a holocaust that makes the planets surface uninhabitable and mankind's destiny uncertain. Cole (Bruce Willis) a reluctant volunteer aided by Dr. Kathryn Railly (Madeleine Stowe) have only two clues to solve the puzzle of the twelve monkeys which threatens to completely erase humanity from the planet...

Hal Hartley's 'Trust' tells the dark comic tale of an unlikely relationship between Maria (Adrienne Shelly), a well-meaning yet thoughtless pregnant teenager, and Matthew (Martin Donovan) an educated yet frustrated high school graduate.

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All eyes are on Burbank - Truman Burbank, that is. And you'll want to join the masses in taking a fresh new look at this marvel of a movie from director Peter Weir. Truman (Jim Carrey) is about to discover just how abnormal his seemingly "normal" life is.

What he doesn't realize - just yet - is that his whole life is a reality TV show, televised and broadcast for the world to see!

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Clint Eastwood memorably plays Everett in 'True Crime', a savvy beat-the-clock thriller, Isiah Washington, Denis Leary, Lisa Gay Hamilton, James Woods, Diane Venora and others populate this suspense tale that tightens to nerve-frying intensity intercutting the parallel stories of the inmate and

Everett's scramble to save him..and perhaps lift his own life out of the trash heap along the way. Everett is harried, determined and trying not to self-destruct. And the clock is ticking.

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In this swashbuckling, high-seas adventure, Walt Disney has vividly brought to life Robert Louis Stevenson's thrilling tale of buccaneers and buried gold - presented for the first time in it's original, uncut, theatrical version! Authentic locales and musket-roaring action set the stage for the

stouthearted heroics of young Jim Hawkins (Bobby Driscoll) and the skullduggery of that wily, one-legged pirate, Long John Silver.

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On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, rookie LA cop, Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) is sent out on the streets with veteran detective Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington) for a day that will make or break him. Pass the test he becomes a detective. Fail, it's back to traffic duty.

As Alonzo pushes his young charge to cross lines and break rules, Jake's misgivings about his superior grow as he begins to suspect that Alonzo does not simply push the boundaries... he has become a rogue cop.

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When the world's heavyweight champion (Ving Rhames) is sent to prison, everything points to an inevitable showdown of the penitentiary's undefeated champ (Wesley Snipes). But to make sure the meeting will happen, a former mob boss (Peter Falk) must call in favours from the outside world.

Then the battle is on... and the action, adrenaline and intensity switch into high gear.

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Violence begets violence in this explosive western that pits marauding Apaches against weary Indian fighters and native U.S. cavalrymen. Burt Lancaster stars in this sharply written, fact-based story as a scout assigned to aid the cavalry in tracking down Ulzana and his band of renegade Indians.

As the trail gets hotter, Lancaster attempts to teach an idealistic young lieutenant that the only way to fight the Apaches' escalating brutality and violence is with even stronger force. Robert Aldrich directs this gritty action epic sure to excite both sense and the intellect.

When a beautiful, college-bound girl, disturbingly preoccupied with the threat of nuclear destruction, falls in love with a handsome ex-con who is rumoured to have murdered the father of his high school sweetheart many years ago, the pair embark on a tempestuous affair.

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Unaccustomed to suburban life, fun-loving Uncle Buck soon charms his younger relatives Miles and Maizy with his hefty cooking and his new way of doing the laundry.

But his carefree style doesn't impress everyone, including Tia (Jean Kelly), his rebellious teenage niece, and Chanice (Amy Madigan), his impatient girlfriend. Uncle Buck is the last person you'd think of to watch the kids. But with a little luck and a lot of love, he manages to surprise everyone in this heartwarming family comedy.

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On September 11 four planes were hijacked. Three hit their target. One did not.

Based on the shocking true events of 9/11, United 93 is a powerful and provocative drama honouring the memory of the 40 passengers and crew on United Airlines Flight 93, the fourth hijacked plane of the 11th September 2001. As the hijackers pilot doomed flight to their target, the passengers stand as one and find the courage to fight back. Unfolding in real time and charting the explosive clash of modern day and old world, feature weaves a gripping story from the standpoint of the passengers, crew, flight controllers and military that will live in your memory forever.

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Based on James Joyce's 1922 masterpiece, Leopold Bloom is Joyce's Jewish protagonist. Wandering the Dublin streets, he thinks about his dead son, his cuckolding wife, Molly, and his own impotence.

During his travels he encounters a one-eyed man who taunts him with anti-Semitic remarks and a young student and poet, Stephen Dedalus. He and Dedalus go to a brothel where Bloom is beset by frightening fantasies. Afterwards the two men sit up all night talking at Bloom's house. When Dedalus leaves, Molly lies awake in bed thinking about her present and past loves, and the possibility of an affair with Dedalus...

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Samantha Morton's directorial debut is a clear-eyed portrait of a young girl uncertainly suspended between the care of incompetent parents and an overwhelmed social-services system.

Working alongside acclaimed writer Tony Grisoni, Morton has created a fictional script that gives an honest and intimate child's-eye view of the care system in the UK. Badly beaten by her father (Robert Carlyle), 11 year old Lucy (Molly Windsor) turns to the social services for help and finds herself in a chaotic children's home, sharing a room with Lauren (Lauren Socha), who after initial hostilities takes Lucy under her wing.

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Russ Meyer's "tried and true" formula is on-target again...Outrageously Buxom women and dumb, Muscular Men laying their sexually aggressive prowess on the line. Yes, it's All Here in Russ Meyer's 'Up!'. Two timers, cops, robbers, joints, and mind-boggling, Bra-Busting women. Sweet Li'l Alice...

fast, Foxy and Fertile. The Headsperson (Candy Samples aka Mary Gavin)...awesome abundance. Pocohontas...cantilevered, protuberant. The Chesty young thing...conical, unrestrained. Limehouse...Pneumatic Bliss - oriental style. The Greek Chorus...(Kittan Natividad)...the biggest and the best, and the 'smothering' Margo Winchester...assault with a Deadly Bosom. Plus the usual assortment of good lookin', virile, Awesomely Hung, klutzy men.

When attorney Frank Calvin (Paul Newman) is given an open-and-shut medical malpractice case that no one thinks he can win, he courageously decides to refuse a settlement from the hospital. Instead he takes the case and the entire legal system as well, to court.